Tuesday, July 31, 2012

I chose to use the fun rays and the circe clutch latch on the bag as the main inspiration for my card. I again used a freebie set of images from their blog - and made this Christmas themed card. I have also used the cream and light grey colors from the bag.

I used Fancy Pants 'St Nick' papers and baker's twine. I used my prismacolor pencils to color in the images to match.

Monday, July 30, 2012

OK. So I have have now found a few AWESOME blogs that I am just in love with! The first is a card site called Retro Sketches - I just love the sketches they have and the simple but oh-so effective DT cards they post. Along with that - I have found a great stamp site called the alley way stamps - the stamps are just TOO cute and the sentiments work perfectly with them. Go check them out - you won't be disappointed.

So the theme this week over at The Cutting Cafe was to use any background set and any bag/box cutting file! As the current themes over on lots of the blogs at the moment is 'Christmas in July' I thought I would stick with that theme.

I made some milk carton gift boxes, using a variety of Christmas background printable files and printable sentiments.

The milk carton cutting files are SO easy to use, and even make the scored lines so they are easy to fold! The printable background sets, I just enlarge to fit on a standard 81/2 x 11 inch piece of card, and most of the tags for the boxes are actually the insert from the milk carton box. Super easy and quick to make!

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Ok - so don't fall off your chair as you read this - but I have actually a scrapped a layout with me in it!!! LOL! As you know (or must realize from previous posts on my blog) I almost NEVER scrap pictures of me - I hate having my photograph taken! These photos were taken by my mum on her recent visit out to us! I wasn't happy at the time - but now I figured - there's got to be some photos of me somewhere or a few generations down the line, people won't know I even existed! Anyway - rambling over - this is a layout I did with the Creative Scrappers sketch #218:

I used the Fancy Pants 'Be You' collection - I just LOVE this one! It's one of the few collections that I decided I need the stamps and stickers to match (I'm not a HUGE stamper as you know!)

I rotated the sketch quarter of a turn to the left. I used a variety of Imaginisce papers. I used the Imaginisce 'cloud' stamp from their 'Happy camper' collection, and then embossed the white cardstock for more texture.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

So - my husband is COMPLETELY obsessed with his new 'tractor'!!!! He decided that it was far too much effort to push the lawnmower around and got himself a tractor! Complete with matching hat! LOL! I just had to scrap these photos - he was having FAR TOO MUCH fun! I used the bonus sketch from Boys Rule Scrapbook kits:

As you can see, I mirrored the sketch and added an extra photo. I paired these up with another great Echo Park collection - 'This & That charming'.

Friday, July 20, 2012

For my first DT post I was absolutely THRILLED when Brittany Perry and Kristy Lee from Scrapbook Steals chose to give me the Imaginisce 'Sole Sisters' collection kit. I had secretly been hoping to see this collection come up on Scrapbook Steals ever since I saw the launch over on the Imaginisce blog. I had even gone a bought myself some stick pins and buttons from another site that matched the collection!!!! There is SO much exciting stuff in this collection, I tried to make a variety of projects using each and every bit (including the packaging!)

So my first project was inspired by my daughter's recent dance recital - how perfect that her outfit should be black and red!!! I made a mini book full of all her pre-show poses and dance moves! The red background paper on these pages is actually the packaging from the embellishments (absolutely perfect!!! I always try and use the packaging wherever possible!!) I used a variety of the papers and embellishments from the collection, trying to stick to the color scheme, adding twine and brads also.

Next I went to town making cards! This has become one of my recent passions and I must say, with this collection it was SUPER easy! All the inspiration I needed was right there in the packets! The first card uses the border strip paper and and embellishments from the collection. Add one little sentiment stamp and voila! A quick and easy card!

The next card took a little more time and effort, but as soon as I found the 'If the shoe fits....' quote, I just knew I had to use the shoe stamp from the collection! I used a variety of colored inks and then jazzed the shoes up with a little twine.

The last card I made was using another of the stamps from the collection, colored in with prismacolor pencils! A very simple design and I also added one of my stick pins and buttons I mentioned earlier - not from this collection but a perfect match! Another quick and easy card!

And lastly, just to show those of you who think 'This collection is no good...I only have boys to scrap!" - tada! A boy layout! This one is of my son whose school recently took part in the 4th July Parade in Park City. It was the first time his school had entered - and they were placed second behind Park City High School! Anyway, back to the layout! As you can see the papers can be just as easily used for a more masculine page - and yeh - he was wearing the perfect color combination!!! These papers worked out perfectly.

So as you can see, I was in IMAGINISCE heaven with this 'Sole Sisters' collection kit. I hope I have inspired you all to hit that steal button and grab a great collection. I had SO much fun with this - and still have SO much left to play with! :-) Thanks again Brittany and Kristy for matching me up so perfectly with this collection.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

I just LOVE these photos of my Dad with the kids! He has just been over to the USA with my Mum and sister for a holiday - 3 weeks of SO much fun! So sad to see them go home! :-( Anyway, all he talked about ALL holiday was having some 'proper' Key Lime Pie! Well, we all pretended that you couldn't get it here - then we surprised him on his birthday with his very own pie! He was over the moon! The Lily Bee 'double dutch' collection of papers was perfect for these photos.

I mirrored the sketch to make the elements work. You will also notice that I had run out of "e's" for my title - so used the number "3" instead! Oh - and I think the "i's" may have been "l's" too! My own creative license!! :-)

Friday, July 13, 2012

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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

So, this was a first for us - a rodeo! We have never been to one before, and whilst my parents were here we decided that it was a must! My dad desperately wanted to see one, and it is not something you get over in the UK! So we headed over to Oakley and had a blast! (I personally think you've got to be COMPLETELY nuts to get on the back of a bucking horse or bull!)

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Another week at The Cutting Cafe and this week's theme was flip flops- perfect for the summer! I decided to make my daughter's teacher a present and card (yes - this was made a few weeks ago - how organized am I???!!!)

I love the black, white and pink color combo, and thought the green button in the middle really made it 'pop'!

My second project was a gift bag. Again I decided on a plain and simple approach, using the Doodlebug buttons to represent balloons. I matched the colored twine to the balloons and used a simple sentiment stamp to finish it off.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Another week at the Cutting Cafe and this week I decided to try out the star box! I decided to make a baby gift bag as a friend of ours has just had a baby girl. This was the perfect size for a gift card and small present. I also made a matching card using the star border that comes with the set.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

For my challenge this month over on Paper Secrets, I would like you to create a card using the following color combo:

I just had to choose the Olympic Rings as my inspiration - coming from my home country (UK) later this month. I was so excited when the UK got the bid to host the Olympics as I thought I could FINALLY watch the events live! Fairly typical we move to the USA shortly after - now I've got the 7 hours time difference again! Anyway here is my card:

I used a fantastic sketch from the ScrapbookSteals blog - one of the 'MCM' series (and as it happened, this was a card for the 'Queen of Mojo' on that blog, Kristy Lee - Happy 40th!!!!)

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About Me

I've moved to Utah, USA from England in June 2010 and I LOVE IT!!
I discovered papercrafting and became obsessed with scrapbooking for a while.
I am now obsessed with card making. I just loving coloring digital images with my prismacolor pencils and using all these different sketches for inspiration :)